On September 21, 1898, Empress Dowager Cixi staged a coup d'état, and Kang Youwei was wanted and exiled overseas. Unwilling to accept the failure of the restoration, Kang Youwei planned several assassination attempts to assassinate Cixi, but unfortunately the results were all fiasco.
As the saying goes, "Xiucai rebelled, ten years will not succeed", this sentence is used in Kang Youwei a little good. As a typical nerd, Kang Youwei acted according to righteousness and personal preferences, and resolutely classified the real power factions such as Cixi and Ronglu into the ranks of class enemies, resulting in them standing on the opposite side of the law change from the beginning. After the "Wushu coup", Cixi once said sadly: "Kang Youwei wants to change the law, why don't you come to me?" It can be seen from this that although Kang Youwei has the ambitions of a politician, he does not have the strategy of a politician, and he belongs to a simple nerd.
However, it was this nerd who, after the failure of the change, also planned several clumsy assassination attempts to assassinate Cixi, all of which failed miserably.
The first assassination was the one looking for Yuan Shikai. As far as ideological views are concerned, Yuan Shikai belongs to the rising stars of the Westerners, and his thinking is to some extent biased towards the Restoration faction. After the Sino-Japanese War, because of chance, Yuan Shikai and Kang Youwei met. When Kang Youwei wrote to Guangxu for the fourth time to request a major change of law, the Metropolitan Inspection Yuan and the Ministry of Works refused to hand it over, and Yuan Shikai helped him. In addition, after the German occupation of Jiaozhou Bay, Yuan Shikai wrote to Weng Tonggong: saying that today's situation is extremely dangerous and that the law must be changed. After just a few exchanges, Kang Youwei decided that Yuan Shikai was the one who could pee into a pot with him. Therefore, on the eve of Cixi's coup d'état, he sent Tan Sitong to persuade Yuan Shikai to kill Ronglu and Cixi, but was betrayed by Yuan Shikai. At that time, there was a song that was widely circulated in society:
Six gentlemen, heads sent. Yuan Xiangcheng, top red. Sell the same party, ask for qigong. Kang and Liang, in a dream. I don't know him, he's a tyrant.
It can be seen that the common people can see that Kang Youwei is a big nerd.
The second assassination of Kang Youwei was sent by Shen Xing, a Hunan man. Shen Xing was originally a close friend of Tan Si and his peers, but after the failure of the restoration, he still exchanged letters with Kang and Liang. Kang Youwei was afraid of death and hid abroad, so he encouraged Shen Xing to go and assassinate Cixi. Shen Xing agreed with one mouthful, and went into Beijing to assassinate him without baggage, but unfortunately, it was difficult for him to do anything as a student, so there was no result for a long time. Soon his friend Tang Cai often began to plan the uprising of the self-reliant army, and Shen Xing naturally wanted to help his friend, so the assassination had to be postponed. The self-reliant army uprising soon failed, and after a few days of hiding in Wuchang, Shen Xing sneaked to Shanghai and immediately went north, making friends with the Eight-Power Alliance, hoping to fill up with foreign forces, and his thinking was quite radical. By April 1903, Russia violated the Treaty of Settlement of the Three Eastern Provinces and made seven unreasonable demands to the Qing court. Shen Xing went to great lengths to explore the contents of the secret agreement and published it all at the first time, which was uproared by the whole country and put Cixi in a rather passive position. In the end, Shen Xing was betrayed by his friend Wu Shizhao, and the identity of the Restoration Party was exposed, and Cixi hated him to the bone, so he hunted and killed him. Because it was The Day of All Lives, Cixi did not want to execute him publicly, so she secretly ordered the Punishment Department to kill him in prison with a codex, and declared that he died of illness to the outside world.
The third assassination of Kang Youwei was sent by Liang Tiejun, a backbone of the royalist faction. Liang Tiejun belongs to the petty bourgeoisie, has long been selling salt in Wuzhou, Guangxi, and is also a rich man. He and Kang Youwei were among the Lingnan Grand Confucian Zhu JiujiangMen Wall, and were brothers in arms. He not only poured out his financial resources to support Kang's restoration cause, but also abandoned his family and went to sea after the "Wushu Coup" and went into exile with Kang. Liang had a martial art and became Kang's bodyguard, and the two later became a bit like a master-servant relationship. It can be seen that Liang Tiejun is indeed the closest person around Kang Youwei. Therefore, Kang Youwei sent him to send his own confidant general.
After Liang Tiejun accepted the task, he took Chen Mo'an, Liang Zigang and several others into Beijing. What is more funny is that the cost of this assassination plan is ten thousand silver dollars, but it has not been raised. Liang Tiejun had to return to his old business and started a business in Beijing, including the "Jichang" photo studio in Dengshikou and the "Guangming" Toyo Car Company. Liang Tiejun used these businesses to frequently communicate closely with the police department, the press, and even the eunuchs in the Great Interior to inquire about Cixi.
Liang Daxia spent nearly two years from November 1904 to Beijing until his arrest and death in August 1906. In the past two years, he has raised funds, studied bombs, looked for opportunities, and made friends with eunuchs Yao Huanqing, Wang Hanzhang, Feng Zhongping, and even knew cixi and Guangxu's living and health. During this period, he once planned to lead Cixi to a "foreign car" or "small fire wheel" and send a bomb to the western sky. For various reasons, it did not succeed in the end.
One day in 1906, Liang Tiejun met a Fellow Villager Zhu Qi from the South China Sea on the street of Tianjin. This guy participated in the Xingzhong Association, and later because he was suspected of "infernal affairs", he was swept out by the "revolutionary party" and later became a detective of the Tianjin Police Department. He knew that Liang Tiejun was still cautious at first, but after several times of talking and talking, he was finally seduced by the other party and revealed his true identity and motives. On August 8, Liang Tiejun was arrested. On September 1, after some severe torture, Liang Tiejun was killed.
The assassination of Cixi was like a project, and Kang Youwei failed three times as a project manager, all because his professional standards were too poor and he was not good at management. Each time either there is a lack of a meticulous and feasible plan, or the executor entrusts the non-person. Kang Youwei's lifelong failures were not accidental.
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